Thanks Bunches

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This week at the Paper Smooches Blog, they are focusing on GRATITUDE!  You can find the directions and inspiration here! 

Here's my entry using Paper Smooches Vegtastic Icons and matching dies and Quote Tag Dies.

Thank You - Paper Smooches

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This week at the Paper Smooches Blog, they are focusing on GRATITUDE!  You can find the directions and inspiration here! 

Here's my entry using Paper Smooches Flap Happy, Botanicals 1, and Noteworthy stamp sets, along with Stitched Flourishes die set. 

Paper Smooches Thank You

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This week at the Paper Smooches Blog, they are focusing on GRATITUDE!  You can find the directions and inspiration here!

Here's my entry using Paper Smooches Giddy Bugs, Botanicals 1, and Noteworthy stamp sets, along with Giddy Bugs die set. The wings are colored in with a glitter pen to add extra sparkle to the card. 

Anything Goes

This week the challenge on the Paper Smooches blog is:

Here's my entry into the challenge with Paper Smooches' cute Sailboat Die:

Paper Smooches Picture Perfect

 

This week's challenge at the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge Blog is a Picture Perfect challenge.  Here's the beautiful inspiration we were given:

I knew right away I would use one of my favorite PS sets, Flap Happy.   It's a staple for me and very versatile! 

After stamping the butterflies, I went over them with a Wink of Stella pen - just love that thing! 

Hope you can join along with the challenge this week!  Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

Hello Spring!

My Spring Break is ending today, and the weather outside is beautiful for this last day of fun and frolic.  Before my son and I leave for a bike ride, I wanted to post this happy card I made for some of this week's challenges. 

First, I used the sketch from Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge for this week.  I love square cards, so this was perfect for me!

I've been messing around with this little lightning bug for a week now, trying to make him work for me.  I love to paper piece him and the other bugs from Paper Smooches Giddy Bugs. The tag and sentiment are from Paper Smooches Quote Tag Die set.

Here's a close up of the lightning but.  I added some Wink of Stella on his face and bottom.  (Do bugs have bottoms?)

I'm also entering this into both of Simon Says Stamp challenges this week.  The Monday Challenge is to create a card with an animal, and the Wednesday Challenge is to create a Spring Themed card using their Pin collage for inspiration.  Lightning Bugs + Green/Yellow= Spring to Me!

Thank you for visiting My Happy Place!  Off to ride bikes now!

Valentines

I wanted to pop in and show my Paper Smooches Valentine card I created using Giddy Bugs, my first love from Paper Smooches.

I wanted to keep the true colors for Valentine's Day, so I used pink and red.  I added some sparkle and shine to the wings of the bugs with glitter and glossy accents.  

My son wanted to participate too, so here is his card:

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

Picture Perfect

This week's challenge at the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge blog is their monthly Picture Perfect Challenge.  This is the photo that we were given as inspiration:

I pulled the colors from the peonias to use in my project.  Here's what I came up with:

I used Flap Happy and Botanicals 1 for this card.  You can find both of those sets at the Paper Smooches store.  

I colored the butterfly with my Prismacolor pencils and finished it off with a little sparkle with my Clear Star pen.  The die that comes with the Flap Happy set makes it so easy.

My son was crafting next to me and made this one using the inspiration piece:

 
Thanks for visiting My (Our) Happy Place!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary to Paper Smooches!  It's been FOUR years of fabulous stamps and dies!  They are one of my favorite companies!

Here is my first card I made with products from Paper Smooches:

Blog post - HERE

Looking forward to many more!

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

One Theme, Two Sketches

I created two cards tonight with the same theme, using two different sketches.  Making them side by side was pretty easy, and it is probably something I should do more often so that I can get more cards created. 

Here is one sketch I used tonight. 

This card is for Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  You can get all the details if you click here. And you can get the awesome sailboat die at Paper Smooches here. 

Paper Smooches Sailboat die, MFT Sunshine die, PTI  Cloud die, sentiment: PTI Flower Fusion #11

I used some more patterned paper, which is my goal right now, to create the ocean waves and for the flag on the boat.  The boat and the sky are both Shimmer cardstock.  I ran the center of the sun through my Xyron and poured some glitter on  it.  It is popped up to add some dimension.  I also popped up the flag and the banner with the sentiment.  

Here's the second card I made with a similar theme:

Sentiment Fillable Frames 1

Thank you for visiting My Happy Place!

Two Sketches, One Theme

I created two cards tonight with the same theme, using two different sketches.  Making them side by side was pretty easy, and it is probably something I should do more often so that I can get more cards created. 

Here is one sketch I used tonight. 

This card is for My Favorite Things Challenge and Inspiration Blog.  You can get all the details if you click here.

MFT Sunshine die, Paper Smooches Sailboat die, PTI  Cloud die and sentiment Fillable Frames 1

I used some more patterned paper, which is my goal right now, to create the ocean waves and for the flag on the boat.  The boat and the sky are both Shimmer cardstock.  I ran the center of the sun through my Xyron and poured some glitter on  it.  It is popped up to add some dimension.  I also popped up the flag and the banner with the sentiment.  

Here's the second card I made with a similar theme:

Sentiment: PTI Flower Fusion #11

Thank you for visiting My Happy Place!

Hello!

Good Sunday evening!  I'm off tomorrow, so I was able to relax a little bit today and not chase the laundry around the house all day.  I organized my patterned paper and discovered I have way too much - from kits to single pages to almost used up pieces that I can't bear to throw away.  I vowed to start using it more often and to go back and review the Pattern Play card class I took last year.  

So, my first attempt at using up a little patterned paper is here:

Paper Smooches: Quote Tag set, Botanicals 1

I stamped the flowers in Versamark and clear embossed them on the tag. Then I used a blending tool to add color to the tag in the palette for this week's challenge at Color Throwdown.  I mounted it on a piece of cream cardstock that I ran through my Big Shot with an impression plate.  All of this was mounted on a sheet of distressed purple (PATTERNED) paper!  I also cut the sentiment and heart from the same paper. 

I continued to use the sketch for this week from the MFT Challenge and Inspiration Blog, but instead of placing the strip at the bottom of my card as in the sketch, I placed my sentiment at the top.  It's a little different, and I think it works!

All of this wouldn't be possible without the Paper Smooches products, so I'll turn this in to this week's challenge - Anything Goes!

That's a lot of challenges wrapped up in one card!

Thanks for visiting my Happy Place!